October 4 SAT Critical Reading

<p>hey i just remember the chimpanzee one in SC, what did u write?</p>

<p>not rele-just that it had to with someone who kept going on and on or something…sorry i dont rele remember it</p>

<p>off topic but is the math elevator 80 or 110 -.-</p>

<p>110 10char</p>

<p>i dont remember nuance.</p>

<p>truce b/c it said “human motives”</p>

<p>it was familiarity, brown
the other examples werent keepsakes
they reminded her of china</p>

<p>why wasn’t that one question on the shakespeake passage</p>

<p>humor___don’t know enough about shakespeare’s life?
why is it a derision?</p>

<p>and do both passages agree that we don’t know much about some periods of shakespeare’s life?</p>

<p>question that asked about first sentence of third paragraph=idea that would later be developed</p>

<p>1st question=routine lives</p>

<p>i got 80. to get 110, did you also count the plateaus? perhaps that’s the difference..</p>

<p>80 </p>

<p>10 char</p>

<p>im not sure about the humor one, i forget the full answer choice</p>

<p>i got that we dont know much about period of his life, not completely sure tho</p>

<p>OK - Just back from the SAT. I had three CR sections so they all counted. The existing threads contain posts that are all over the place. I hope this framework helps organize things so that we can work more efficiently:</p>

<p>SENTENCE COMPLETIONS

  1. Cerebral
  2. Inapt .. odd
  3. Disregard .. cosmopolitan
  4. Nuance
  5. Garner .. Enigma
  6. Precipitous
  7. Digress
  8. Munificence</p>

<p>Critical Readings</p>

<ol>
<li>One paragraph: Women and the vote</li>
<li>One paragraph: Mixed up senses</li>
<li>Magritte painting and reality
. What was the paradox?
. Unambiguous
. Simplistic and debatable

<ol>
<li>Mini-Paired Passage: Shakespeare
. They both think Shakespeare is a genius
. Irreverent</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Arts and Crafts/Art Nouveau</li>
<li>Asian Family lives in Canada; daughter adjusts but mother doesn’t</li>
<li>Big Paired Passage: Automobile is ruining cities like Boston
. Quote shows WRY sense of humor</li>
</ol>

<p>which q was nuance for? AND AIM CHATROOM??</p>

<p>nah both passages agree shakespeare was influential</p>

<p>LIST OF CORRECT WORDS, please add when you think of them…we should come out with 19 in the end and we have 11 so far:</p>

<p>magnanimous
precipitantly
munificent
cerebral
inapt/odd
registered…environment (insect barometer one)
cosmopolitan
nuance
truce</p>

<p>the nuance q was about this woman’s emotional recording</p>

<p>for that shakespeare passage, how was the 2nd passage’s tone compared with the 1st?</p>

<p>I agree with rb3, i out comical something for</p>

<p>sorry LIST OF CORRECT WORDS, please add when you think of them…we should come out with 19 in the end and we have 11 so far:</p>

<p>magnanimous
precipitantly
munificent
cerebral
inapt/odd
registered…environment (insect barometer one)
cosmopolitan
lucid
prolific
nuance
truce</p>